Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While many people have focused on the health benefits of gardening in recent years, another rewarding aspect of working with ...

I had a caller ask about his mango tree. He said that one side of his tree was fruited and the other side was barren. I thought about this for a long time and decided that he had a Vainer tree and ...

Luther Burbank, the famed experimental horticulturalist, called it making old trees young again. But even for novices, fruit tree grafting is alluringly simple: a dormant branch or twig - a scion - is ...

Many tropical fruit trees, including mango, avocado and orange, perform better when farmers merge good fruiting characteristics with resistance to disease. To accomplish this, a single stem is placed ...

Ever wondered if you can pluck different varieties of mangoes off a single tree in your backyard? Or whether your tree can bear fruit earlier than the years-of-wait? Grafting may well be the answer.